<p class="poetry">But I am like a deaf man &#8211; I hear nothing;p> <p class="poetry">I am like a mute who cannot speak.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">For they say cruel and deceptive things to me;p> <p class="poetry">they lie to me.<n id="1" />p>

<p class="poetry">Yes, <sc>Lordsc>! I am indeed your servant;p> <p class="poetry">I am your lowest slave.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">You saved me from death.<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">Is this the one who made the world like a desert,p> <p class="poetry">who ruined its<n id="1" /> cities,p> <p class="poetry">and refused to free his prisoners so they could return home?&#8221;&#8217;<n id="2" />p>

<p class="poetry">The sovereign <sc>Lordsc> has spoken to me clearly;<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">I have not rebelled,p> <p class="poetry">I have not turned back.p>

<p class="poetry">The one who suffers<n id="1" /> will soon be released;p> <p class="poetry">he will not die in prison,<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">he will not go hungry.<n id="3" />p>

<p class="poetry">Shake off the dirt!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">Get up, captive<n id="2" /> Jerusalem!p> <p class="poetry">Take off the iron chains around your neck,p> <p class="poetry">O captive daughter Zion!p>

Then the <sc>Lordsc> said, &#8220;This means<n id="1" /> destruction will break out from the north on all who live in the land.

<p class="poetry">The gates of the towns in southern Judah will be shut tight.<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">No one will be able to go in or out of them.<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">All Judah will be carried off into exile.p> <p class="poetry">They will be completely carried off into exile.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Then you will know that I am the <sc>Lordsc>, when I open your graves and raise you from your graves, my people.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;In that day there will be a fountain opened up for the dynasty<n id="1" /> of David and the people of Jerusalem<n id="2" /> to cleanse them from sin and impurity.<n id="3" />

There will never cease to be some poor people in the land; therefore, I am commanding you to make sure you open<n id="1" /> your hand to your fellow Israelites<n id="2" /> who are needy and poor in your land.p>

Elisha<n id="1" /> said, &#8220;Open the east window,&#8221; and he did so.<n id="2" /> Elisha said, &#8220;Shoot!&#8221; andp> <p class="bodytext">he did so.<n id="3" /> Elisha<n id="4" /> said, &#8220;This arrow symbolizes the victory the <sc>Lordsc> will give you over Syria.<n id="5" /> You will annihilate Syria in Aphek!&#8221;<n id="6" />

<p class="poetry">This is what the <sc>Lordsc> says to his chosen<n id="1" /> one,p> <p class="poetry">to Cyrus, whose right hand I hold<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">in order to subdue nations before him,p> <p class="poetry">and disarm kings,<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">to open doors before him,p> <p class="poetry">so gates remain unclosed:p>

Now the hand of the <sc>Lordsc> had been on me<n id="1" /> the evening before the refugee reached me, but the <sc>Lordsc><n id="2" /> opened my mouth by the time the refugee arrived<n id="3" /> in the morning; he opened my mouth and I was no longer unable to speak.<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;&#8216;This is what the sovereign <sc>Lordsc> says: The gate of the inner court that faces east<n id="1" /> will be closed six working days, but on the Sabbath day it will be opened and on the day of the new moon it will be opened.

<p class="bodytext">So Abraham&#8217;s servant<n id="1" /> went to the house and unloaded<n id="2" /> the camels. Straw and feed were given<n id="3" /> to the camels, and water was provided so that he and the men who were with him could wash their feet.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">While the famine was over all the earth,<n id="1" /> Joseph opened the storehouses<n id="2" /> and sold grain to the Egyptians. The famine was severe throughout the land of Egypt.

<p class="bodytext">When one of them<n id="1" /> opened his sack to get feed for his donkey at their resting place,<n id="2" /> he saw his money in the mouth of his sack.<n id="3" />

But when we came to the place where we spent the night, we opened our sacks and each of us found his money &#8211; the full amount<n id="1" /> &#8211; in the mouth of his sack. So we have returned it.<n id="2" />